the little. cat calls and set the tone for the cia hopeful john brennan's confirmation hearing with obama's hand-picked man put on the spot over drones torture and targeted executions. tens of the march on those faces treason recalls will the government to go off to a fresh round of budget cuts sees a spike in university fees and the end of free prescription drugs for pensioners. tunisia could be stretched to the limits as the country gives up the war protests and even strikes on the day of the funeral of the opposition leader whose murder unleashed the new anti-government sentiment. and

a drive to bail in the u.k. aims to open up my village online communications to the authorities but to their concerns it's taking national security a step too far. it's eight am here in moscow are you live with us on our t.v. with me to bob would say it's good to have you company this friday. it was a tense and confrontational confirmation hearing for president obama's favorite to tricky at the cia the session began with gere's and protests before the audience was cleared out lawmakers then bombarded john brennan with questions ranging from his role in america's torture program to his support of overseas drone strikes are

to scan and she can reports now on what the cia hopeful have to say. what most people expected to hear was how does the u.s. government make decisions as to who should be on their kill list and mr brennan would certainly be the most appropriate person to ask because he is known to have been in charge of the kill list and he's known as the architect of the administration's targeted assassinations program so the question of who the drones are targeting was critical and one of the senators asked john brennan whether there should be at least some judicial oversight over those executions by drones and here's what he said none of those actions or to determine past guilt for those actions that he took the decisions that are made or to take action so that we prevent a future action to protect american lives so the rationale that john brennan gave for not going to court is that the administration is not in the business of punishing individuals but it's in the business of preventing attacks and he basically says the u.s. government could execute people who are what they haven't done yet and you would

expect a follow up questions from lawmakers as to how the administration determines the level of threat as these people constitute let's imagine an angry yemeni man who writes in his blog bag he hates america as you can see why died in a drone strike and he wants to take revenge is that enough to justify him being killed by a drone there are so many questions about how the administration decides to put someone on their kill list and yet there was not smear another grilling on the part of the senators to get specific answers prior to the hearing a memo was released which the justice department handed over to congress and according to the memo the government can kill people overseas even without evidence that they are actively plotting against the u.s. the paper states that the u.s. would be able to kill a u.s. citizen or non-citizen overseas when one quote an informed high level of social of the u.s. government determines that target is an imminent threat to them here for also suggest that such decisions would not be subject to judicial review and outlines

a broad definition of what constitutes imminent threat. at the very beginning of the hearing as john brennan was delivering kids remarks he was interrupted five times or so by protesters who stood up and express shouted out whether their opposition to those executions senators had to take a recess for for the protesters to be removed from the hearing and these protests are steered by numerous reports that the drone strikes kill innocent people as well not just suspected terrorists everybody expected tough questions on drones but that did not happen john brennan got away with very broad answers like the program if saving lives and that you should take the administration's word for it. a private hearing now a way to jump brennan in order to iron out technicalities but given his performance at the senate scholar and author of exporting made in america a democracy calling cavell says it could also be a very bad precedent this is

a complete to our constitutional rights. do grants to those a war and equal protection of the law and yet within ministration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and so we can be judge jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the dangerous this is one didn't look good ministrations says we can determine who the jurors. really go really were hurt and killed any american citizen without any drugs without any problem and that is a very dangerous precedent. drone warfare its consequences and the morality of it all are up for debate in cross talk today coming up at seven thirty g.m.t.

we hear how drone strikes the may be breeding the very terror they seek to destroy . it's quite horrific in africa but it's getting worse i mean there's a new new drawn be a snow in nigeria close to mali so that you've got the west of african eye as well and so it's trucking up so that we're going to have drawn b.s. is all over africa and i'm not sure what to suppose really why are we doing this well isn't it. the most effective recruitment tool for insurgents in the world david what do you think about that drones are an improvement on torture drones or an appointment of a ground war these are the arguments were being given and yet we didn't have a ground war in yemen we might need one eventually with the damage the drone strikes are doing but this is we're being told that this type of murder is better then all of their human rights abuses.

tens of thousands of students and teachers have taken to the streets of spain on the largest day of protests so far and make calls for the resignation of the country's education minister spain's public sector is facing fresh cuts with the head to head to education expected to be nearly one billion euros polish mit to produce that artie's ruptly video agency spoke to some of the demonstrators. hundreds of people are gathered here in madrid tonight complaining about cuts in education they are mostly students parents of students and teachers but the education is not their only concern they're also demanding the resignation of the government the government of money and no one has been accused of receiving bribes from private companies and opening bank accounts in switzerland look at other people you can see burton's saying calling spain the last vegas of the european union and also complaining about the lack of democracy that people are protesting and there is no solution to their complaints the salary of

a teacher. if i have to pay a mortgage and everything i can to send two kids to university i will have the money and how is privatization in the educational sector hourman education in spain well they see everything us business no matter what you do it ok sure should be an occasion for people to make money out of food today don't see it as a public service or not you know the whole service is the same they save you get ill if you have a problem you are a customer and you are you are good they're going to make money out of you it's just a reaction they did the money and everything to their budgets we have. no provision for the public system this has become a trademark of spanish demonstrations after every march those sweeping trucks come rapidly and sweep all the streets leaving no evidence that there was a demonstration against the government. a budget battle in brussels as

a fresh e.u. summit it kicks off the blocks traditional economic policies aren't seeing eye to eye with britain leading poles full cuts to the budget cuts france accuses the u.k. of hypocrisy. tunisia is bracing itself for a third straight day of street battles friday sees the funeral of a key opposition. feta assassination became a catalyst for the latest wave of antigovernment fury the country's trade unions have also called a general strike to protest against chokri belaid murder which some pinned on islamist leadership in the latest showdown police used tear gas on a mob throwing stones and group protesters chanting anti-government slogans were trying to approach the country's interior ministry in the capital tunis archie's crew has also been caught up in them dressed as art is maria for national now reports temperatures are still very high and tensions are still at a very dangerous the very risky level the level that is threatening and challenging

the security instability in this country protests have been continuing throughout thursday we've seen many many people on the streets it's been many clashes between police and opposition supporters and again police has been using tear gas against protesters my crew and me we've been attacked by a group of youngsters we've just because we've filmed them and that tells a lot of all the situation on the ground we've been hearing about similar violence and similar disturbances throughout the country especially in the southern part of tunisia where the headquarters of the ruling party has been vandalised the protests may go even more violent intentions may go even further because friday will be the day of the funerals of the opposition leader the country could be paralyzed and no one will be working today and nothing will be open that use of the country would paralyzed has been attempts to ease the tensions in the country from prime minister if the idea was to form a government that will not be affiliated to any political party no politics and

government but the islamist party dominated to nieces governing coalition rejected . from ministers decision who can understand the reason an internal political crisis it's definitely will be very hard for this country to overcome this crisis. georgia's parliament is edging the president out of power. saakashvili hughes officially the country's leader until october is losing most of his policies after his party lost the parliamentary majority following a crackdown on dissent and that revelations of human rights abuse that's coming up . and image is everything even amid the ravaging economic crisis leaders plan to spend millions on an online propaganda blitz aimed at enhancing the blocks reputation via the use of social media. the british government is trying to get its hands on private web information it's

drawn up a documentary for cheap by some as snoop is a charter which looks to give authorities war rights just by on a citizens' online is one concerns over an invasion of privacy archies a search for the looks now at whether such measures could enhance national security . the main area of concern surrounds this the draft communications data bill and proposals in it that critics say see the public left wide open to having their facebook accounts or twitter e-mails read anything that they visit online the websites that they gayety logs by the government now understandably those plans have proven hugely controversial with critics labeling it the snoop is charter now perhaps more concerning is the latest report by the intelligence and security committee and they'd like to see a nationwide surveillance regime implementing now the government say that they need to do this to catch criminals and stop terrorism but there's lots of the members of

the public saying where are safeguards when it comes to what we do online will seek more about this i'm now joined by professor and sneakily to the director studies security and intelligence studies at the university of auckland thank you very much for joining us you are in support of the draft communications data verbal i heard you describe yourself at a recent talk is the skunk at the picnic if these fees and these proposals are so unpopular why are the government pushing them through all the time when the government is pushing them through because the government realizes that they're needed some thirty million people use the internet to communicate with each other each day in the united kingdom people in this country fully accept that for more than a hundred years. their telephone conversations are likely to be mined if they're seen as a national security risk so it's completely absurd to think that there should be

this new form of communications that should somehow be exempt from these sorts of measures ok to vulgar furrowing you need a warrant with the proposals the idea is that perhaps my information a fine members. public underling nothing will why should my emails the local issue my twitter account the eighth and to investigate well it's important to realize that this is not a charter to mine everyone it's a charter to mine anyone against to there is intelligence of being a serious risk to our national security in one way or another and related said members of the public would still be kept retaining well what the government is asking the internet service providers to do is to retain data that at the moment they're just getting rid of so if there is a suspicion that a particular person is engaged in serious organized crime sex trafficking or

terrorism the government can then institute a pro as a member of the public what if i don't my e-mails for a well if you don't want your e-mails pro. your not engaged in any kind of illegal activity your e-mails won't be pro if you want if you want complete privacy don't write any letters to your friends don't speak to them on the telephone and don't send them photographs of yourself in joking that can very much for joining us to fester and see if the has that is the solution maybe is the time for a big log of thing hey someone is actually watching their first london. iran's helping hand to egypt as it gives the struggling country alone despite being under several rounds of crippling economic sanctions with cell phone that's just ahead. also fireworks in a spectacular gotta show round off

a day of celebrations in russia's black sea resort of sochi marking one mia till the most expensive winter olympics ever. eight leaders have started tough negotiations over the blocs next budget ballot for seven years from twenty fourteen the financial wrestling comes with the u.k. prime minister david cameron in the right corner meeting calls for major spending cuts and crisis that countries in the blue one artist are so silly a explains what else makes the talk so complex. we've seen some of the leaders who had arrived here already making strong statements first of all we david cameron continuously saying that if the budget is not brought down to a level that he is happy with there will be no deal we've heard from other countries who are saying that they maybe use their veto if they're not happy such as the czech republic to simplify the vicar going on right now it would be between northern and southern countries you could say the wealthier nations versus those

that actually depend more on the e.u. funding on the one hand you have countries like the u.k. germany the netherlands denmark these countries are supporting harsher cuts to the e.u. budget david cameron being the most radical and controversial taking this step now he has been demanding since november last year in two thousand and twelve that was the first try today is the second try and since that until now he's been demanding for cuts in brussels bureaucracy for instance but on the other side you have those countries who are dependent on these forums and one of the loudest voices on this is walmart of france also the u.k. is coming into this summit this is the first time since david cameron announced that in or out referendum that in said that he would pose the question of whether he should remain. twenty seven if he's really reelected twenty eight fifteen of course this is a possibility of a creating even more tension in the u.k. with the cost benefit of actually being a member of the e.u. interpreted by the other members as not being

a team player in this regard and also as this talk is happening talking about budget cuts of the e.u. level we see the budget cuts on a more local ground level we've seen the protests continuing even until today people very angry at the. imposed on them on their livelihoods of their pensions are on their potential jobs well that you cannot agree upon a budget of their own. it's sad image is everything in politics and in these times of austerity the e.u. is eager to do whatever it takes to maintain a good reputation even if it means spending big two million years have apparently been earmarked to spend on a p.r. war with online you're sceptics nigel farage from the u.k. independence party thinks such actions show the block as no more than a banana republic they decided that they're going to train in how staff in the run up to the european elections of twenty fourteen train those people to go online to

look at facebook twitter and other social media sites and to correct that's their word not mine to correct any misapprehensions that may exist about the european union and i have to say the fact that it's a parliament that is doing this that is using taxpayers' money to do this says a lot about the institutions that all brought about parliaments is the person is it's him a chair of parliament he's the speaker in westminster he's the chairman in other parliaments around the world but he and all the rest of the staff are supposed to be neutral they're not supposed to take any political position at all and the fact of the parliament decided it's going to spend money time and resources doing this shows you that frankly they're no better than a banana republic this is all the mcgarvie would do or someone like that so i think many people outside would be shocked by it having worked there myself for thirteen

years i'm not surprised at all they are really really scared they're scared that from north to south to east to west all over the european union citizens are saying we've never voted for this thing to become the united states of europe we've never asked to have the majority of our laws made somewhere else and we want to do something about it so they're scared and they're fighting back. online a key document and russia's recent history disappears here called the clarion the soviet union breakup burnishes and bell abuse sparking predictions that the thieves might make a fortune. pole so alien life form what scientists claim that our galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable planets read more than that at r.t. dot com.

the georgian parliament has postponed president saakashvili s annual address after his party now a minority refused to agree to a constitutional amendments removing his right to fire the government the president's party lost its grip on power in a recent parliamentary vote for doing a crackdown on it on protests and claims of human rights abuses against political prisoners to the let's hear a chef scheme met with one of the victims. georgia has performed miracles we moved from being a failed state will be one of the top business destinations in the world while it will be high degree of economic freedom according to the world bank i'll be number one fighter with corruption worldwide and many people started to believe in this nation's people started to believe the mockers it was because it is georgia really a beacon of democracy and freedom not from your viewpoint when he's universities rectory refused to build a prayer room he helped organize

a ten thousand strong peaceful student rally but it ended with his arrest and sentence of four and a half years behind bars no. guards could just walk into our cell and start beating us for no reason the even put twenty year old students in wheelchairs and prison one of the inmates went insane because they showed him footage of how his wife was being raped. your he thought he was spending his time with murderers and drug barons and stan he found himself among academics architects and righteous all jailed for having a different opinion to the country's leadership. works as an advisor to the minister of the penitentiary system and used to be classmates with saakashvili she believes the astonishing number of prisoners in georgia during his reign was to a large extent personally driven. wanted as what he had often been joked at in school and he directed his revenge against his former classmates when he became president most of them were either stripped of their businesses are put to prison

in his presidency we've had twenty five thousand people in jail. weeks before last year's parliamentary vote news of a successful counterterrorism operation in eastern georgia made headlines eleven suspected militants from russia's north caucasus were killed but some said the whole thing was a hoax to discredit russia and in fact the slain men were georgians. first of all their weapons were american made second not. one of them fired off a single shot but not all the uniforms of these so-called fighters were brand new this was saakashvili is planned he has sent his guys across the border into russia and then had them shot by the georgian police this was a set up just to frame russia shortly after that event a shocking video of prisoner abuse in georgia jails went viral and effectively diminished the president's party support by more than a half which lost both the election and control over the country it's not yet known

where the second street will face prosecution of the prison torture allegations but for two hundred political prisoners the change of power meant the chance to walk free because like us really well for many remain as georgia's president until october but he's powers have already been transferred to the prime minister if he wanted to has already declared a national wide amnesty of political prisoners but experts say there was socialization may take several more years saakashvili still tried to block the amnesty with furious comments. i want i will not sign papers which will allow paedophiles and racists to walk free if you will let the parliament claim responsibility for that but. r.t. reporting from belief in georgia. iran has extended a helping hand to egypt offering a loan to the cash country and also plans to invest more in sudan all this despite the fact that to iran itself is subject to severe economic sanctions imposed by the

us and e.u. of its nuclear program economists and commentator can mokhtari told r.t. that egypt has no choice but but to accept help from we can get it. but egypt has has made it quite clear that it wants to go in. but the muslim brotherhood has come to the realization. we're. as important as powerful as iran in the region. they will have to be given to meet and should they decide to go to conference in a confrontational course with iran it would it would prove counterproductive so egypt is in dire straits it will require assistance from only number of muslim countries to get back on its feet to go. have a take let's take a look at some international news in brief a major traffic accident in zambia has left fifty three people dead and many more

injured the incident occurred on a highway one hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital lusaka a bus full of passengers swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle before plowing into a lorry is thought to be one of the worst traffic incidents in the country's history. the us aviation authority has given the go ahead for embattled aviation company boeing to run airborne tests of its dreamliner seven eighty seven plane batteries on two of these new passenger jets failed last month with one catching fire all seater has been grounded since the middle of january the stakes are higher for boeing has received orders for seven hundred of the planes costing two hundred million each. the black sea resort of sochi has marked exactly why me yeah until the start of the next winter olympics with the rest of russia joining the celebrations the games have already become the most expensive games in history art is andrew farmer reports from sochi

. but if you can see the if the spirit has when in truth it's ok to explore the city sky this taping area there was a spectacular skating show but it's not the choice of going. to be the beach games but it takes not a nice time to be for several reasons but this new day will be the first ones with it except trouble in bars this is a big con caves in nice try of. these going through to be very compact you will be able to just jump in to try and within thirty minutes you can be in the mindset of my piano to enjoy my new friends secondly most of the keys are being built from scratch something very unusual and not strictly between three cups of skanks will play nice expensive in a street coming into some kind of a billion dollars but if you do look around you can see what money can buy the organizing committee says a soldier will be ready in twenty. right coming up after the show

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